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African Studies CentreThe University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa. In every Faculty and Division across the University there are active research programmes focused on the continent. The African Studies Centre, within the School of... Podcast, English, Oxford, UK |
| Listen now | Surviving on the Margins: Youth and the Underground Oil Economy in the Niger Delta Paul Ugor (Birmingham) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series on 10th May 2012 Tuesday, 15-May-12 10:05 BST |
| Listen now | Somalia after the London Meeting: How Much Difference Does a Day Make? Laura Hammond (SOAS) gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series. In association with the Horn of Africa Seminar Tuesday, 08-May-12 12:49 BST |
| Listen now | Squatter movements in the Vaal Triangle Dr Noor Nieftagodien (University of Witwatersrand) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre on 8th March 2012 Monday, 12-Mar-12 15:29 GMT |
| Listen now | Buganda Nationalism in the 21st Century Dr Florence Brisset-Foucault, Research Associate, Cambridge, gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series Monday, 05-Mar-12 11:57 GMT |
| Listen now | Kenya's Somalia Invasion: Security, Development and Humanitarian Assistance in Eastern Africa Professor David Anderson gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on 23rd February 2012 Friday, 24-Feb-12 16:48 GMT |
| Listen now | The Legitimation of Criminal Justice in Post-Genocide Rwanda: international, national and localised courts Dr Nikki Palmer (Oxford) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre seminar series on 8th February. Tuesday, 21-Feb-12 15:23 GMT |
| Listen now | The Politics of Ethnicity in Ethiopia: Actors, Power and Mobilisation under Ethnic Federalism Louise Aalen, Bergen University, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series on 2nd February 2012 Monday, 06-Feb-12 13:53 GMT |
| Listen now | Who Killed Dag Hammarskjöld? The UN, the Cold War, and White Supremacy in Africa Dr Susan Williams (Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London)gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series on 19 January Monday, 23-Jan-12 18:24 GMT |
| Listen now | The Killing Fields: The Impact of the Global Arms Trade on Africa Andrew Feinstein gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on the arms trade and its impact on Africa Tuesday, 29-Nov-11 12:48 GMT |
| Listen now | Zimbabwe's Fast Track Land Reform: Politics, Production and Accumulation Phillan Zamchiya (International Development/St Antonys), gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series Friday, 18-Nov-11 17:21 GMT |
| Listen now | Potency and the Role of the Environment in KhoeSan medicine Chris Low, African Studies, Oxford, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar Series Friday, 18-Nov-11 17:18 GMT |
| Listen now | African Local Knowledge: Natural, Biomedical and Supernatural Ideas about Livestock Health Karen Brown (Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine) and William Beinart (African Studies/St Antony's) give a talk for the African Studies seminar series Friday, 18-Nov-11 17:15 GMT |
| Listen now | Power, Ambition and Ideas in the political career of Apartheid Prime Minister H F Verwoerd Jonny Steinberg, (African Studies/St Antony's) gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Seminar Series Tuesday, 08-Nov-11 18:02 GMT |
| Listen now | The Ecology of Conflict: Human-Wildlife Conflict on the Hwange National Park Boundary, Zimbabwe' Andrew Loveridge (Wildlife Conservation Research Unit, Zoology) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences) Monday, 31-Oct-11 16:06 GMT |
| Listen now | Climate Change and Conflict in Sudan: what if development is not the answer to save Darfur? Harry Verhoeven (Politics/St Cross) gives a talk for the St John's College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences) Monday, 31-Oct-11 16:04 GMT |
| Listen now | Ethnic violence, water scarcity and managing resources to promote peace Karen Witsenburg (Both ENDS and Max Plank Institute for Anthropology) gives a talk for the College Colloquium on Environmental Conflict and its Resolution (joint event with Oxpeace and Human Sciences) Monday, 31-Oct-11 16:02 GMT |
| Listen now | Cruising through Uncertainty: Mobile Phone Practices and the Politics of Respect in Southern Mozambique Julie Archambault (African Studies/St Annes College), gives a talk for the African Studies Centre Thursday, 27-Oct-11 15:22 BST |
| Listen now | ORENGA Special Lecture - Fashola's Lagos: the man, the method, the megacity Babatunde Fashola, Governor of Lagos State, Nigeria, gives a special lecture for the African Studies Centre. Thursday, 27-Oct-11 15:19 BST |
| Listen now | Witchcraft and the Colonial Life of the Fetish (African History and Politics Seminar) Professor Florence Bernault (Wisconsin) presents her work on the historical role of 'fetish' and 'witchcraft' in colonial Africa and the historical development of their linguistic uses. Wednesday, 22-Jun-11 14:20 BST |
| Listen now | 'Rubber Will Not Keep in this Country' - Failed Development in Benin, 1897-1921 (African History and Politics Seminar) Dr James Fenske (Oxford) presents his ongoing research on the history of the rubber trade in Benin, and presents a comparative study to other areas of rubber trade in West Africa. Wednesday, 22-Jun-11 14:18 BST |
| Listen now | The Politics of Legal Pluralism: the Case of Community Policing in Mozambique and Swaziland (African Studies Seminar) Helene Maria Kyed (DIIS) looks at the role of community policing in Mozambique and Swaziland. Wednesday, 22-Jun-11 14:14 BST |
| Listen now | Worldliness, Citiness, Postcolonial Life and Thinking from the South Achille Mbembe, Professor of Social Theory, University of Stellenbosch, gives the second 2011 Africa Studies Annual lecture on 26th May 2011 Wednesday, 01-Jun-11 13:41 BST |
| Listen now | 'City, Art, Motion: Rethinking the "Now" in Johannesburg' (Annual Lecture 2011) Sarah Nuttal, Research Professor, Department of English, University of Stellenbosch, gives the first 2011 African Studies Annual Lecture on 26th May 2011 Wednesday, 01-Jun-11 13:38 BST |
| Listen now | Ethnicity, Power and Kinship. Female Chiefs in Tanzania, 1870-1940 Heide Schmidt, Professor of African Studies, University of Vienna, gives a talk for the African Studies Seminar series on 16th May, 2011 Monday, 23-May-11 16:55 BST |
| Listen now | Pan-African Solidarity in the Central African Federation, 1953-1963 (African History and Politics Seminar) Zoe Grove, PhD student at Keele University, presents her research on the history of the Central African Federation, especially looking at the issues of cross-border migration and the movement of ideas. Tuesday, 17-May-11 08:21 BST |
| Listen now | How to Build a Successful Opposition Party in Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) Michael Sata, President of Zambia's leading opposition party, the Patriotic Front (PF), presents a talk on what it means to lead an opposition party in Zambia. Tuesday, 17-May-11 08:18 BST |
| Listen now | 'The Politics of Oil in Eastern Africa' (African Studies Seminar) Professor Anderson presents research on the rising interest in oil in East Africa and how it is transforming the face of regional politics and threatens Kenya's position as the regional resource hub. (10 Mar 2011) Presenting research done by Professor... Friday, 13-May-11 10:48 BST |
| Listen now | Women, Sports and Societies in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) As part of the Women's Sport in Africa conference (University of Oxford, 7 Mar 2011), Prof. Nauright (George Mason Univeristy) presents on historical research looking at sports in Africa, with a particular view to women's sport and his own work. Friday, 13-May-11 10:42 BST |
| Listen now | Support Democracy Abroad: The Record in Africa Prof Thomas Carothers, Vice President for Studies, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Nuffield College, gives a talk for the Rothmere American Institute on 2nd Feb 2011 Monday, 14-Mar-11 18:04 GMT |
| Listen now | The Fischer Lecture: Human Rights and the Law in South Africa (African Studies Seminar/Rhodes House Trust) George Bizos SC, human rights lawyer and defense barrister for Nelson Mandela, gives the 2011 Bram Fischer lecture at the Rhodes House, Oxford. Sunday, 06-Mar-11 16:43 GMT |
| Listen now | Politics and Genocide: Rwanda (African Studies Seminar) Dr Omar McDoom (London School of Economics) looks at a single community in southern Rwanda, using spatial mapping, in order to understand why some people chose to kill during the violence and others did not. Sunday, 06-Mar-11 16:39 GMT |
| Listen now | Some thoughts on history and biography and Govan Mbeki as Subject (African Studies Seminar) Dr Colin Bundy (Green Templeton, Oxford) shares his research on Govan Mbeki and the questions and issues raised by historical biographies. Sunday, 06-Mar-11 16:35 GMT |
| Listen now | Rethinking the Origins of Political Thought in Colonial East Africa: The Local, Regional and Global Intellectual Influences... Ethan Sanders, a third year D-Phil student at the University of Cambridge, presents his recent research on the development of the African Association in Tanganyika. Sunday, 06-Mar-11 16:29 GMT |
| Listen now | Encountering Islam in Eastern African: Transnational History and Imperialism, c. 1880-1930 (Global and Imperial History... Prof. Anderson (Oxford University) examines the tumultuous history in the Jubaland area of southern Somalia and northern Kenya at the turn of the 20th century. (Presented in the Global and Imperial History Research Seminar) Professor David Anderson... Wednesday, 09-Feb-11 12:26 GMT |
| Listen now | The case of the slave ship Progresso: the Royal Navy, the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the Cape (African Studies Centre... Prof. Harries examines the surprising role the Cape played in the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and the challenges the Royal Navy was forced to deal with in stopping slave ships. Professor Patrick Harries' (Basel University) examination of the historical... Wednesday, 09-Feb-11 12:16 GMT |
| Listen now | Dambisa Moyo Lecture (African History and Politics Seminar) Dambisa Moyo, the internationally renowned author and economist, presents material from her books, Dead Aid and How the West Was Lost, looking at the policies that affect both Africa and the West. Dambisa Moyo, the internationally renowned author and... Tuesday, 01-Feb-11 14:35 GMT |
| Listen now | 100 Years of 'Struggle' Between the Polity and the Market in South Africa (African History and Politics Seminar) 'A Luta Continua! Reflections on 100 Years of "Struggle" Between the Polity and the Market in South Africa', presented by Dr Jesmond Blumenfeld (Brunel). Dr. Jesmond Blumenfeld (Brunel, Oxford Analytica) looks at the history of economic policies and... Saturday, 29-Jan-11 18:16 GMT |
| Listen now | 20 Years of Multi-Partyism in Kenya (African Studies Seminar) A roundtable discussion examining the current state of Kenyan politics, twenty years after it changed to a multi-party state. The change to multi-partyism in Kenya in the early 1990s brought with it the hope of significant developments for the East... Tuesday, 25-Jan-11 14:31 GMT |
| Listen now | Development as an Alien Culture: the purposes of governance in South Africa Dr Jonny Steinberg gives the 2010 Africa Studies Centre Annual lecture held on 11th June 2010, Nissan Lecture Theatre, St Antony's College, Oxford University Monday, 26-Jul-10 10:05 BST |
| Listen now | Islam, the ‘Originaires’ and the making of the public space in a colonial city: Saint Louis of Senegal Mamadou Diouf from the University of Columbia gives the 2009 African Studies Annual Lecture on the influence of Islam in Post-Colonial Africa, in particular, the public spaces of the former French Colonial City of St Louis in Senegal. Tuesday, 16-Jun-09 15:36 BST |
| Listen now | Detective Fictions: In Pursuit of Sovereignty in the Postcolony Professor Jean Comaroff gives the 2008 African Studies Annual Lecture on the situation in South Africa, the rise of crime and violence as well as the rise private security companies and belief in the supernatural forces of witchcraft. Tuesday, 05-May-09 16:57 BST |
